Bath table



y 8, 1952 D. E. MULCAHY 2,602,167

BATH TABLE Filed April 3, 1950 INVENTOR.

DAVID E. MULCAHY flax/424:1.

ATTORN 5Y6 Patented July 8, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BATH TABLE David E. Mulcahy, Williamsburg, Mich.

Application April 3, 1950, Serial No. 153,659

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to bath tables and more particularly to a combination infant bath tub and dressing table.

The primary objects of the instant invention are to provide a bath table of the general character above indicated which when not in use may be compactly folded for storage in a relatively small place and when desired for use may be unfolded and detachably hung on the wall of a bath room or to the wall surface of any other convenient room; to provide such a bath table which is simple yet rugged and sturdy in construction; to provide such a bath table which is light in weight and thus conveniently portable; and, to provide such a bath table which is reasonably economical in construction.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the bath table;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view thereof when in its folded position of non-use;

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the bath table on line 3-3 of Figure 1 but shown hung on the wall of a bath room or on the wall surface of any other room with the table in its upwardly tilted position against the wall making the tub in readiness for bathing the infant;

Figure 4 is an end elevational view thereof showing the table in its lowered position in readiness for drying and dressing the infant; and

Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view of one of a pair of spaced wall brackets adapted to be secured to a bath room or other wall surface to which the bath table may be detachably hung.

Referring then to the drawing wherein like parts of the bath table are designated by the same numerals in the several views, the same comprises a rectangular frame III, here shown as formed of tubular metal stock to whose periphery is secured a tub II of any suitable collapsible material such as rubber, duck or the like and a second rectangular frame I2 of substantially the same length and width as that of the frame I and likewise of tubular stock is provided with a web I3 of duck or other suitable material tautly secured to the periphery thereof and forming a table on which the infant may be dried and dressed which frame I2 is hingedly secured to the frame I0 as by a pair of hinges I4.

An inverted L-shaped leg I5, likewise here shown as of tubular metal stock, is hingedly secured to each side of the frame III as by a pair of hinges I6 whereby the bath table may be compactly folded to its position shown in Figure 2 from its positions as viewed in Figures 3 and 4.

The free end of each leg I is provided with a bumper ll of any suitable material such as rubber, fabric or the like and each of said legs is likewise provided with a transverse pin I8 im- 2 mediately below its turned portion (Fig. 4), the outer end of each pin having a ball portion I9.

Wall brackets 20 adapted to be secured to a bath room or other wall surface 2| in a spaced relation the distance between the several ball portions I9 of each pin I8 are provided with bayonet slots 22 whereby when it is desired to use the bath table, the same may be unfolded from its folded position shown in Figure 2 and detachably hung on the wall in its positions viewed in Figures 3 and 4.

In use and after the bath table has been hung on the wall surface 2I, the frame I2 and its web I3 forming the table may be lifted from its position shown in Figure 4 to its position viewed in Figure 3 in which position of the bath table the infant may be then bathed. After the bath, the frame I2 may be dropped to its position as viewed in Figure 4 which frame and its web I3 form a table on which the infant may be dried and dressed.

It will thus be seen that the bath table herein shown and described may be compactly folded for storage and when desired for use may be unfolded and detachably hung on the wall of a bath room or to the wall surface of any other convenient room, that the bath table is simple yet rugged and sturdy in construction and light in weight and thus conveniently portable, and is reasonably economical in construction.

While but one specific embodiment of the invention has been herein shown and described, it will be understood that certain details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of the invention as the same is defined in the following claim.

I claim:

A bath table comprising a frame having a collapsible tub secured thereto, a second frame having a web tautly affixed thereto and hingedly secured to and above said first frame, and a pair of inverted L-shaped legs spacedly hingedly secured to said first frame on sides opposite the sides to which the second frame is hingedly secured to the first frame, each having a transverse pin provided with a head adapted to be received in a wall bracket aperture for detachably suspending the bath table.

DAVID E. MULCAHY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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